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Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Man, am I behind on reading. Been busy lately in other modes of living.

Over the weekend I re-read Alan Moore's Promethea, book III.


I have to say that it is one of the greatest comics I've ever read. In terms of fully utilizing the medium, it's just great. There's one moment when Promethea and one of the past Prometheas, Barbara, are walking with a sort of heavenly character. He is talking about the nature of reality and during the conversation he looks directly out at the reader and as he's talking about reality, you feel the line between fiction and reality bend slightly. It is eery and compelling.
Throughout the book, the artist, J.H. Williams III, uses varying colors and styles, from hard primitive scratchy art in red to smooth, cartoony art-nouveau style. There's symbolic imagery all over the place and all these references to occult and scientific history. It's just so rich. It's definitely something you can read several times and still glean more information out of. If you're a fan of the comic book medium, I highly recommend this book. Starting, of course, with book one (books two and three aren't yet available on Amazon and book four hasn't come out at all yet, though I'm eagerly awaiting it.

Brian posted at 10:25 AM.
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